Tomato paste should always be in the refrigerator at any mistress. You can add it to borscht , and spread pizza , and use for sauces. Let's consider with you how to make a delicious tomato paste at home.
The recipe for cooking tomato paste
Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 3 kg;
- bulb - 500 g;
- table vinegar - 400 ml;
- sugar - 400 g;
- juniper berries - 5 pieces;
- bay leaves - 1 teaspoon;
- mustard - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- water 100 ml;
- spice.
Preparation
First, let's choose good and fleshy tomatoes. Then we wash the tomatoes in cold water, put them into a deep bowl and let them dry. Then cut them with a knife into 3 - 4 parts. The bulb is cleaned, washed and shredded in a large cube. After that, we put the vegetables in a deep aluminum pan, fill it with clean distilled water, put it on the fire and bring it to a boil.
Boil everything for 10 minutes, so that the tomatoes let the juice, and the liquid in the pan increased by about 2 times. During cooking, periodically mix the ingredients with a wooden spatula to prevent them from sticking.
Oven reheat to 170 degrees. We remove the pan with boiled vegetables from the plate, pour a little vinegar, pour sugar, put liquid mustard, ground laurel leaf, black ground pepper, juniper berries and salt to taste. Then grind all ingredients with a blender and pour the resulting mass into a baking dish.
We send the pan to the preheated oven and stew, evaporating the moisture from the paste for 5 hours, until it thickens and gets a rich burgundy color. Periodically, gently mix the mass with a wooden spatula so that nothing burns.
Bring the tomato paste to the desired density, carefully remove the baking sheet from the oven and leave it to cool to room temperature. Next, put the paste in clean containers and put them in the refrigerator. Cooked according to this recipe, it is stored for about 12 months. We use ready-made spicy tomato paste if necessary in hot dishes from fish, meat, we add soups, sauces and gravies.
Tomato paste recipe for spaghetti
Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 2.5 kg;
- spice;
- bulb - 1 piece;
- vinegar - 0,5 items;
- sugar - 100 g.
Preparation
Tomatoes are mine, cut off all unnecessary and shred them into small pieces. The bulb is cleaned, crushed and mixed with tomatoes. Then put the vegetables in a saucepan, pour a little oil, cover with a lid and steam for 15 minutes. After that, we rub everything through a sieve and spread the paste again into a pan.
We put it on the fire and boil it up to reduce the mass in the volume up to 2 times, constantly, mixing. All used spices, wrapped in cheesecloth and carefully lowered into a saucepan. After that, pour in the vinegar, throw sugar and salt, mix thoroughly. We keep the mixture on fire for about 10 minutes and then take out the spices. We spread tomato paste in pre-prepared jars and close them with lids. Sterilize the jars in boiling water for about 15 minutes and roll them up. We store the homemade pasta at room temperature or in the refrigerator.
Recipe for homemade tomato paste
Ingredients:
- ripe tomatoes - 3 kg;
- bulb - 1 piece;
- sour apples - 2 pieces;
- table vinegar - 30 ml;
- spice.
Preparation
Cooked tomatoes, apples and peeled onions are thrown into the juicer. The resulting liquid mass is poured into the cheesecloth, we tie a knot from above and hang the little koulechek over the basin, so that all the juice gradually merges there. In the gauze there will be a mashed potatoes, which we transfer to a pan. Solim this mass and boil it on a weak fire for about 30 minutes. Then pour in the vinegar and boil for another 5 minutes. Then quickly spread the hot paste on sterile jars, roll, turn and wrap.